Alexander Fraser

Posted by Bob Fraser on Saturday 21st of September 2013 08:02

June 1787 Colossus whilst fitting out
Oct 1787 to Royal Sovereign, 1st Lieutenant
1 Dec 1787 appointed Commander
Apologies. My error in copying.

Posted by Bob Fraser on Tuesday 17th of September 2013 15:20

born 1751.
1760 First ship age 9 sloop Fly - at Belleisle
1767 Midshipman on Mermaid
1770 Acting Lieutenant on sloop Bonetta
June 1773 - Autumn 1774 on Royal Oak (74) at Spithead
1774 Acting Lieutenant on Scarborough (20)to America
1775 Lieutenant on Canceaux. Took the landing party ashore and burned Falmouth, now Portland.
1776 returned to England on Bristol
1777 Commissioned to Hector (74), carried La Licorne to Portsmouth and returned to Hector
1779 Conqueror (74) as 1st Lieutenant
1780 - 1782? St Carlos then Romney
1782 Ruby to the West Indies, then Formidable, then Adamant
June 1784 Colossus whilst fitting out
Oct 1784 to Royal Sovereign, 1st Lieutenant
1 Dec 1784 appointed Commander
July 1794 Proserpine Frigate as Captain
1 Aug 1810 to William and Mary Royal Yacht and Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge

Extracted from his biographic entry